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by paganel 6mo ago
> I believe it is in the best interest of the United States if the center of power shifts back from West Coast "tech bros" to the East coast I'm not an American, never set foot in the US for that matter, but I'd say I
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by paganel 6mo ago
I'd say that a 10% culling of their workforce when they should be going all in on is not "very normal". I don't think that those 10% of their workforce were keeping them back, to the contrary, now a big part of the remai
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by paganel 6mo ago
That’s the thing, I have never seen detailed costs of what people are spending their money on. I know that for Claude there’s a $200 monthly subscription through which assigned credits one burns pretty fast, at which point (and I may be wro
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by paganel 6mo ago
I can confirm that French paperbacks are in a league of their own, my almost weekly purchases at the French bookstore here in Bucharest are a example of that (never visited Japan, but a French friend of mine who’s also a book rat and who st
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by paganel 6mo ago
About this book: "Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders", and especially about this source of information: > Shlomo Goitein used the documents that were serendipitously discovered in the geniza of the Cairo synagogue I'm stil
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by paganel 6mo ago
“Being productive” without taking inputs/costs into consideration is an oxymoron.
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by paganel 6mo ago
As a fellow cheese lover I would have loved for more geographical diversity, especially when it comes to sheep cheese. Ok, it didn't include Romanian telemea (I'm Romanian myself), but it could have at least gone for the Greek
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by paganel 6mo ago
> Jevons does not save you either, There's also a very strong Trurl and Klapaucius [1] component to this AI craziness, as in I remember a passage in Lem's The Cyberiad where either Trurl or Klapaucius were "discussing&qu
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by paganel 6mo ago
> Billabong board shorts lasted a decade of salt water and sun, I've had a Billabong orange t-shirt last almost 15 years of sun and salt water from time to time, one of the best clothes-related purchases I've ever made. Sad to
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by paganel 6mo ago
That article you linked to didn't mention that Context.ai, from where this mess originated, is a YCombinator company. Most probably its founders are on this very web-forum.
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by paganel 6mo ago
> into thinking they are turbo-charged devs Fortunately no-one sane enough among us, computer programmers, believes in that bs, we all see this masquerade for what it mostly is, basically a money grab.
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by paganel 6mo ago
> Two accelerationists might have directly opposed beliefs and goals. The same way as there has been a left-wing socialism and a right-wing socialism, which in the case of inter-war France (for example) ended up with the Ni droite, Ni g
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by paganel 6mo ago
Am I not? How would you have used it?
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by paganel 6mo ago
The national broadcaster here in Romania has been politically leaning on whoever was paying the bills, hence on who’s holding political control over the country. I can say the same about the foreign bureaus of State-owned media thingies lik
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by paganel 6mo ago
For once the accelerationists were proven right.
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by paganel 6mo ago
The tone, for one thing. Normal people don't care about "il Buco" nor about what some nobody has eaten while recounting things, articles like this one should solely focus on the "recounting things" part, not on the
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by paganel 6mo ago
> either in a free market o Then why all the anti-coal mining diktats coming down from Brussels?
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by paganel 6mo ago
> , and Lerner ordered, for the both of us, a glass of “something dry and cold.” For lunch, he requested the chicken: a roasted baby chicken from a farm upstate, to be exact, an order that, in its comically artisanal specificity, Stuff l
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by paganel 6mo ago
Europe still has coal, lots of it, not using it is a political choice and a self-inflicted wound.
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by paganel 6mo ago
There's no such big opportunity, as the number of programmers' spouses is quite limited. Again, and as the GP rightly suggested, some of the HN-ers here need to go and touch some normie grass, so to speak. More to the point, nobod
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by paganel 6mo ago
Because they're not airline tickets nor hotel bookings. Crazy though that nowadays train tickets have started implementing this ID thing (I'll take your word for it, last time I purchased a train ticket, as a tourist, I had to inp
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by paganel 6mo ago
This page/project itself is another proof of the cultural significance of YT, one of the very few positive things brought by the Internet post-2010.
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by paganel 6mo ago
Another scummy YCombinator project, one of many lately. Looks like no-one is left at the wheel, at least as long as the valuations (and hence money) keep coming in.
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by paganel 6mo ago
> in line with their "VPN" policy This is how I learn that they have a "VPN" policy. Thinking of it maybe it makes sense, that is if it's what I think it is, but seems scummy nonetheless.
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by paganel 6mo ago
When you do most of the thinking before you start implementing the whole thing, and if you think that that's enough, then you've missed the unknown unknowns part, which was a big talking point in the mid 2000s, back when the ant
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by paganel 6mo ago
> When anyone can host open models They'd still need to pay the actual power costs.
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by paganel 6mo ago
Correct, in the end big money talks.
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by paganel 6mo ago
Crazy indeed, glad that someone else has already mentioned Magellan, because that’s whom I also had in mind. Not sure there’s a solution for this because at this point the risk scare has been institutionalized among most if Western (and not
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by paganel 6mo ago
The shuttle didn’t accomplish that much and didn’t get us as far as Artemis just did, the risks are well worth it. Nobody is forcing the astronauts to do their astronaut thing, imo they’re aware of the risks they’re taking, and kudos to the
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by paganel 6mo ago
> I was told that if an account is linked to another account that receives copyright strikes, I still remember how mad people were when that linkage between YT accounts and Google accounts took place, and, of course, it looks like they w

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